Babes on wheels

Sally WrightCHICAGO TRIBUNE

When our mothers stopped cooking and started buying TV dinners--and I clearly remember when it happened in my household--that seems to be when we started our obesity run ("Craving the cookie," Page 1, Aug. 21-23).

Remember "baby's first walk"? Now it's "baby's first stroll," as mothers put children as old as 4 in strollers and the children do not walk.

I've seen some big babies in strollers and when the mom takes them out of the strollers to walk, the children start to cry, and right back into the stroller they go. Take the child out of the stroller and make him walk!